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Pioneering British high-tech : [Leicester University Engineering Building, Willis Faber & Dumas Building, Lloyd's Building] / [John McKean, Gabriele Bramante, Kenneth Powell]
Series: Architecture 3sPublication details: London : Phaidon, 1999Description: [180] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cmISBN:- 0714838802
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Summary: These are three highly feted and ground-breaking Modern British buildings. The extremely influential Leicester University Engineering Department Building, with its powerful contradictory geometry, established the worldwide reputation of James Stirling. The glass facade of Foster's building for Willis Faber Dumas -- a mirror by day and transparent by night -- caused a sensation in 1974, was awarded the RIBA Trustees' Medal in 1990 and still commands attention. The 'mechanical cathedral' of Lloyd's in the heart of the City of London, was a radical development in the 1980s and epitomizes Rogers' concern with flexibility and technical imagery. By looking at the three key buildings in one volume the reader can chart the development of Modern British architecture and examine the distinctive approaches taken by the 'big three' exponents, as they were called at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1986.
James Stirling and James Gowan : Leicester University Engineering Building, Leicester 1959-63 / John McKean -- Foster Associates : Willis Faber & Dumas building, Ipswich 1975 / Gabriele Bramante -- Richard Rogers Partnership : Lloyd's building, London 1978-86 / Kenneth Powell
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | NA 968 .P68 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 639377 |
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| NA 963 .B9 1937 v.6 pt.2 The arts in early England / | NA 964 .S85 1963 Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830. | NA 965 .M69 1993 Elizabethan & Jacobean style / | NA 968 .P68 1999 Pioneering British high-tech : [Leicester University Engineering Building, Willis Faber & Dumas Building, Lloyd's Building] / | NA 970 .D66 2000 Dome. | NA 970 .P69 2011 21st-century London : the new architecture / | NA 970 .U58 2006 Ultimate London design / |
Includes bibliographies
James Stirling and James Gowan : Leicester University Engineering Building, Leicester 1959-63 / John McKean -- Foster Associates : Willis Faber & Dumas building, Ipswich 1975 / Gabriele Bramante -- Richard Rogers Partnership : Lloyd's building, London 1978-86 / Kenneth Powell
These are three highly feted and ground-breaking Modern British buildings. The extremely influential Leicester University Engineering Department Building, with its powerful contradictory geometry, established the worldwide reputation of James Stirling. The glass facade of Foster's building for Willis Faber Dumas -- a mirror by day and transparent by night -- caused a sensation in 1974, was awarded the RIBA Trustees' Medal in 1990 and still commands attention. The 'mechanical cathedral' of Lloyd's in the heart of the City of London, was a radical development in the 1980s and epitomizes Rogers' concern with flexibility and technical imagery. By looking at the three key buildings in one volume the reader can chart the development of Modern British architecture and examine the distinctive approaches taken by the 'big three' exponents, as they were called at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1986.
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